Pāli Dictionary

vājapeyya

vājastempeyyasuffix

Part of speech

noun · neuter

cosmology

  • 婆羅門蘇摩祭之一種（力飲祭）

  • the vājapeya sacrifice, a soma offering; a kind of (brahmanical) sacrifice

  • SN 3.9

    assamedhaṃ purisamedhaṃ, sammāpāsaṃ vājapeyyaṃ niraggaḷhaṃ, mahāyaññā mah'ārambhā, na te honti mahapphalā.

Encyclopedia

Vājapeyya
Other

  • 一種祭祀儀式，註疏中有兩種解釋：一是以柔和悅耳之語親切問候他人，二是飲蘇摩酒並以十七種動物獻祭十七次的儀式。

  • A sacrificial rite explained two ways in the Commentaries: greeting people with kind and pleasant speech, or a sacrifice in which soma is drunk and seventeen animals are offered seventeen times over.

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